Accused bank robber tried to share his wealth in Fort Pierce

FORT PIERCE — A generous and complimentary bank robber was robbed of his loot as he attempted to share the money with people in a neighborhood on North 23rd Street, according to what witnesses told police.

Fort Pierce resident Trisco Adams' local attempt at being Robin Hood instead got him arrested on June 14.

His reaction to being robbed of the money he's accused of stealing is what led investigators to the North 23rd Street area after they heard the 25-year-old started "acting crazy" and threatened to go after his assailants with an AK 47.

Police received complaints that Adams, of North 51st Street, was angry about being robbed and was becoming irrational.

They even took him into protective custody after a traffic stop, when they found in his car a handgun with eight 40-caliber rounds, according to police reports. He bragged about having an AK 47 rifle, but police never found one.

Adams told them someone was trying to kill him and that he planned to shoot himself before they got to him, the reports state.

He was hospitalized at Lawnwod Regional Medical Center and Heart Institute in Fort Pierce. He attempted to escape, but hospital workers contained him.

That's when a photo lineup at the police station led to his arrest and charge for bank robbery.

He's accused of walking into a Wells Fargo Bank branch on U.S. 1 in Fort Pierce on June 11 wearing a large hat, sunglasses and several shirts, one on top of the other.

A teller reported that Adams pulled a handgun out of his pocket and held it on the counter, with the muzzle pointed toward her after she asked him to obey the bank's policy of not wearing hats and sunglasses.

The assailant spoke in a deep voice, she told police, telling her not to press the alarm button, or he would shoot.

Then he told her she was so pretty he didn't want to harm her.

With an undisclosed amount of cash in hand, he walked out the door and fled the area, eluding a police dog.